This Week's Funding News w/c 21st August 2017

New or Updated Funding Initiatives

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation: Social Change

Esmee Fairbairn funds ambitious and challenging work that puts those who have been marginalised at the heart of creating change. There are 3 Funding Priorities under Social Change

  1. Participation – marginalised and excluded individuals and groups
  2. Place – revitalising community life
  3. Injustice – systemic change around injustice and inequality
     

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Wooden Spoon

Wooden Spoon are one of the country's largest funders of respite and medical treatment centres, sensory rooms, specialist playgrounds, sports activity areas and community based programmes.   

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Greenhall Foundation

The objective of the Green Hall Foundation is to sustainably improve lives: among the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged particularly in the UK. Overseas projects are also supported provided that the applicant charity is registered in the UK.

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Key Dates for your Fundraising Diary

Community Foundation for NI: Northern Ireland Brexit Dialogue Fund

The NI Brexit Dialogue Fund has been established as a way of “Helping community organisations listen, think, plan and lobby as they deal with approaching Brexit”.  Grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 are available.

Closing Date (1pm) 1 Sep 2017

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Heritage Lottery Fund: Grants for Places of Worship (Northern Ireland)

The Grants for Places of Worship programme is for projects that involve urgent structural repairs to places of worship that are at risk. As part of a repair project they can also fund work to encourage greater community use and engagement. You can apply for a grant from £10,000 to £250,000.

Closing Date for December 2017 Decision 04 Sep 2017

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BBC Children in Need Small Grants

BBC Children in Need Small Grants is open to charities and not-for-profit organisations applying for any amount up to and including £10,000 per year for up to 3 years.  The scheme gives grants for children and young people of 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:

  • Illness, distress, abuse or neglect
  • Any kind of disability
  • Behavioural or psychological difficulties
  • Living in poverty or situations of deprivation

Application Deadline (Midnight) 01 Sep 2017

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